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Table 1 Characteristics of included studies and prevalence of FIBU

From: Prevalence of focal incidental breast uptake on FDG-PET/CT and risk of malignancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Items

Year

Country

Time period

Source of population

No. of scans

Detected FIBU*

Studies

Female

Total

Female

Total

Chae et al. (2012)

2012

Korea

2005–2010

Patients with known or suspected malignancy or screening for malignancy

NR

32,988

NR

131 (0.40)

Kim et al. (2012)

2012

Korea

2004–2010

Patients underwent PET for staging of known primary malignancies or cancer screenings

NR

5214

NR

27 (0.52)

Dunne et al. (2013)

2013

Ireland

2009–2012

Patients underwent PET for any reason reporting breast abnormality

2719

6050

50 (1.84)

50 (0.83)

Lim et al. (2013)

2013

Korea

2006–2011

Patients with known malignancy or asymptomatic women for their health check-up

7594

43 (0.57)

Minamimoto et al. (2015)

2015

Japan

2006–2009

Nationwide survey of the FDG-PET cancer screening program

62,054

317 (0.51)

Benveniste et al. (2015)

2015

USA

2005–2011

Patients underwent PET for any reason including the word “breast” in their report

1866

1951

438 (23.5)

438 (22.5)

Bertagna et al. (2015)

2015

Italy

2005–2013

Patients underwent PET for oncologic purposes not related to breast disease

NR

42,927

NR

79 (0.18)

Shin et al. (2015)

2015

Korea

2005–2011

Patients underwent PET scans for cancer evaluation or health check-up

21,224

214 (1.01)

  1. NR not reported, FIBU focal incidental breast uptake
  2. *Data was shown as frequency (percentage)